Live Webinar – June 24th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Many companies are making the transition from waterfall to agile.

However, Scrum and most other agile practices do not define a role for Business Analysts. So where do you, a Business Analyst from a waterfall world, fit in an agile environment?

Just as organizations need to change their mindset and behaviors to transition to agile, so must business analysts. Attend this webinar with Dave Saboe (LinkedIn profile) to understand the role of an agile business analyst and the shift you need to make to be successful in an agile environment.

You will also discover how you can bring value to your team and organization through agile practices.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 13 – Stakeholders

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.2 Plan Stakeholder Management

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for Transitioning to Agile: The Journey Into Agile Business Analysis

Live Webinar – June 23rd, 2015 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

There is a clear connection between engagement, performance and profit.

It is imperative to drive performance results at all levels of the organization to seize market position and steer growth.

Recruiting talented candidates is not enough; it’s crucial that people are assigned to the specific roles where their talents will have the greatest effect on achieving company goals, and where they are most likely to remain fully engaged.

Matching each person to the right job using the job matching process outlined in this session will give you the ultimate edge over competitors: It builds a superior performing workplace and boosts employee morale and engagement.

Job matching is the science of carefully defining superior performance in each position and using objective criteria to determine who is hired.

In this session you’ll learn to…

• Contrast traditional job matching and hiring processes to an assessment-based job matching system
• Leverage a job benchmark based on top performers in your specific company to drive interview questions and find a specific match to the job’s most critical competencies, behaviors, values, and acumen
• Reduce the cost of disengaged and stressed employees who are struggling to meet the requirements of a position that isn’t a good fit for their natural talents
• Balance the risk of bias in intuition-based hiring with the science of online job benchmarks and compliant gap analysis of candidates

Add some science to check your intuition when you join this session

Speakers:

Brittney Helt (LinkedIn profile),  helps businesses grow by helping their people grow. As the Client Advocate for Russell Martin & Associates she forms, builds and nurtures relationships with their clients. Brittney works one-on-one with clients to identify and create a custom solution to their project management, team and leadership needs. As a Certified Behavioral Analyst and Certified Motivators Analyst, Brittney leverages the behaviors of teams and individuals to find fun and interactive learning solutions to grow business goals through the growth of their people.

Presenter: Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile) is President and CEO of L+EARN and Russell Martin & Associates. Lou delivers learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand and focuses on faculty development, retention and recruitment of students, project management, leadership and organizational learning opportunities. Lou is the author of The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook and IT Leadership Alchemy, Project Management for Trainers, Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change, and her newest book 10 Steps to Successful Project Management. A popular speaker, Lou addresses national and international conferences such as the Career College Association, ACCET, Training 2008, Project Management Institute, Project World, LotuSphere, ASTD and the Society of Information Management (SIM).

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team

As a Category C “Self Directed Learning Activity” remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your “PDU Audit Trail Folder”

Click to register for Take the Bite Out of Hiring: Abandon Competencies for Lean Key Accountabilities

Live Webinar June 24th, 2015 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

How Is Employee Engagement Done?

Most companies and leaders want to increase employee engagement. The problem is – we don’t know how to do employee engagement. It remains a statistic we strive for: intangible, elusive, and yet ever increasing in importance.

Engagement requires engagement. There’s a lot of doing required — transforming this huge, complex topic into something tangible that we can act on. It won’t happen as a result of offering extravagant perks but comes through reinforcing each and every connection within an organization.

In this webcast, Susan will discuss:

1. The state of engagement in the workforce today
2. Key trends most critical for increasing and maintaining high levels of engagement
3. Tools to engage immediately

Presented by: Susan Scott (LinkedIn profile) ia a leadership development architect and bestselling author of Fierce Conversations, and Fierce Leadership introduces clients to transformational ideas and principles that shifts their basic understanding of conversations and the power they hold in leadership, build relationships and achieve results.

Read the two books that started the Fierce Revolution:

• Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott
• Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst “Best” Practices of Business Today by Susan Scott

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.4  Manage Project Team

As a Category C “Self Directed Learning Activity” remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your “PDU Audit Trail Folder”

Click to register for Get Fierce: How to Do Employee Engagement

Live Webinar – June 22nd 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

With the launch of BABOK Guide v3, everyone is anxious to start delving into the finer details of the Guide to gain further insight into today’s global view and expectations placed on business analysis professionals to create better business outcomes and drive business success.

Join ASPE on June 22nd to discuss these expectations and the way in which BABOK Guide v3 expands the scope of business analysis to support the evolution of the business analysis profession.

Key Points:

•  The journey to BABOK v3
• What’s New… the Major Changes
• Why these changes are important to the Business Analysis practitioner

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 9.3 Develop Project Team

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

Click to register for Introducing The BABOK 3.0

Live Webinar June 24th, 2015 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

You’re a project manager and are managing people that don’t report to you directly.

You’re having some difficulties getting the people on your project to do the tasks required to meet the project’s objectives.

Are there any tools and techniques available to help you overcome the challenges you’re having with matrix managing project team members?

This webinar will introduce techniques for resolving the challenges that we all face when we’re matrix managing team members ensuring team buy-in, ownership, and accountability, responsiveness to requests for action, and appropriate and effective escalation processes.

Participants will learn about:

• Setting up the project kick-off meeting.
• Making a contract with functional managers.
• Obtaining buy-in and ownership.
• Resource planning and the Responsibility Matrix.
• Communication planning.

Learn how to set the stage through your project kick-off meeting, negotiate a suitable matrix management contract with functional managers, and understand how to engage team members and executives through effective communication and escalation planning.

PLEASE NOTE:  If you are on the Solutions Group Site and receive a message that your cart is empty when you go to check out – this is because you are not yet signed in to your account on their site – or you have not registered for a free account on their site.

To resolve this issue simply click the “person” icon on the top of the course description page and either sign in or register.  You can then return to the course Description page and add the course to your cart.

Click here to PURCHASE How to Solve Matrix Management Problems: How Do We Influence People that Don’t Report to Us?

Live Webinar – June 23rd, 2015 – 10:00 am to 12:00 am EDT
Presented by:  The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 2 Hours -2 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Teamability^®:
The Ability To Connect With Others
To Form A Productive Team

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph,
But a team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote an article entitled “Teams Matter. Talent is Not Enough.”

In essence, it is a challenge for executives to find and exploit the “magic” of team synergy.

The metrics of teaming now exist!  Even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. Teaming metrics are key to improving selection, increasing engagement, and vastly reducing new-hire turnover, all with measurable business value.

With TGI Teamability:
PMs will be able to create extremely strong teams.

In this introduction you will learn:

• A completely new technology will help you understand why talented, experienced people do not always “team” well with others.
• How to reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting,
  • Metrics and methods that measure and predict “teaming” behaviors.
  • How to effectively analyze and solve team performance problems.
• How to deliver significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team
  • The ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams
  • Behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities
• How it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their “Role”).

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity to help you understand the strengths of your team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful!

Edmonton PM

This program has been approved for 2 General recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. PMPs can earn two Cat B credits for this two hour course. In addition, you will be offered the opportunity to have your own Teamability® experience!

Click to register for An Introduction To Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach